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When the average person has a “theory,” they’re just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.

By digging deep, we could harness enough energy to power generations to come. But it involves fracking.

The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?

The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.

How can we understand mysterious planets like Jupiter? Use giant lasers!

And the one step we can take to show extraterrestrials we’re figuring it out. Every year, Earth’s meteor showers accomplish two important tasks. This composite photograph shows a large number of […]

If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?

Creating an afterlife—or a simulation of one—would take vast amounts of energy. Some scientists think the best way to capture that energy is by building megastructures around stars.

Researchers discovered a galactic wind from a supermassive black hole that sheds light on the evolution of galaxies.

A Harvard professor’s study discovers the worst year to be alive.

With a finite 13.8 billion years having passed since the Big Bang, there’s an edge to what we can see: the cosmic horizon. What’s it like?

If light can’t be bent by electric or magnetic fields (and it can’t), then how do the Zeeman and Stark effects split atomic energy levels?

They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.

Altos Labs is an ambitious new anti-aging company with billions of dollars to back it up.

If we’re migrating slowly away, is our speed changing, too? Every year, planet Earth completes one revolution around the Sun while spinning on its axis. On a year-to-year basis, our […]

Einstein’s most famous equation is E = mc², which describes the rest mass energy inherent to particles. But motion matters for energy, too.

Journey to the West is rightly considered one of the most influential novels ever written, but the real reason for its success may be its charismatic poster-boy: The Monkey King.

Best in class: Denmark and Uruguay. Worst in class: Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, and Russia.

Yes, “the laws of physics break down” at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.

A new model of the Antikythera mechanism reveals a “creation of genius.”

The Kardashev scale ranks civilizations from Type 1 to Type 3 based on energy harvesting.

From time-traveling billiard balls to information-destroying black holes, the world’s got plenty of puzzles that are hard to wrap your head around.

Scientists looked for ways to trigger the “build whatever normally was here” signal for cells at the site of a wound.

From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.

While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a watery past, lasting for approximately the first 1.5 billion […]

The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.

And what if both parties are skilled at mirroring each other? Will it produce a stalemate?

From hellishly hot planets to water worlds, some distant planets are like nothing in our Solar System.

Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.

JWST has brought us more distant views of the early Universe than ever before. Is the Big Bang, and all of modern cosmology, in trouble?